An axe is a tool used to hasten the breaking of wood-based or other tough organic blocks, strip or scrape certain blocks, or as a melee weapon that can disable shields it hits.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
||
| Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
| Damaged Matching Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Upgrading[]
| Ingredients | Smithing recipe |
|---|---|
| Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Axe + Netherite Ingot |
Repairing[]
Grinding[]
| Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2× Damaged Wooden Axe or 2× Damaged Stone Axe or 2× Damaged Iron Axe or 2× Damaged Golden Axe or 2× Damaged Diamond Axe or 2× Damaged Netherite Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% of max durability. |
Unit repair[]
An axe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tier's repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down.
Mob loot[]
Equipment[]
A vindicator spawns with an iron axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. It is usually heavily damaged and is sometimes enchanted.
A piglin brute spawns with a golden axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. Also, in Java Edition, zombified piglins can drop their golden axe (with the same chance as piglin brute drop) if they have been zombified from a piglin brute.
Raids[]
In Bedrock Edition, Vindicator and pillagers that spawn in raids have a 4.1% chance (5.12% on hard) to drop a badly-damaged iron axe, which is sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment. A vindicator can drop 2 iron axes, one from natural equipment and one from raid drops.
Trading[]
Novice-level Toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell a stone axe for one emerald, journeyman-level Toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell an enchanted iron axe for eight emeralds, and expert-level Toolsmith villagers have a 50% chance to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 13 emeralds.[Bedrock Edition only]
Novice-level Toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell a stone axe for one emerald, journeyman-level Toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell an enchanted iron axe for 7-22 emeralds, and expert-level Toolsmith villagers have a 66.67% chance to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 18-35 emeralds.[Java Edition only]
Novice-level Weaponsmith villagers sell an iron axe for 3 emeralds as one of their trades, and master-level Weaponsmith villagers sell an enchanted diamond axe for 12 emeralds.[Bedrock Edition only]
Novice-level Weaponsmith villagers have a 66.67% chance to sell an iron axe for 3 emeralds. Master-level Weaponsmith villagers always offer to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 18-35 emeralds.[Java Edition only]
The enchantments are the same as the ones obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.
Villager gifts[]
Toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.[Java Edition only]
Weaponsmith villagers occasionally throw either stone, gold, or iron axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.[Java Edition only]
Structure loot[]
In Java Edition, a sealed room in woodland mansions can appear that has a chest always containing an Efficiency I iron axe.
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Wooden Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 75% |
| Stone Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 25% |
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 14.7% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 30.2% | |
| Enchanted Golden Axe[A] | Bastion remnant | Hoglin stable chest | 1 | 22.8% |
| Generic chest | 1 | 9.8% | ||
| Bridge chest | 1 | 11.2% | ||
| Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% | |
| Iron Axe | Cold Ocean ruins | Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 6.7% |
| Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 6.7% | ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Wooden Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 75% |
| Stone Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 25% |
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 14.7% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 30.2% | |
| Enchanted Golden Axe[A] | Bastion remnant | Hoglin stable chest | 1 | 22.8% |
| Generic chest | 1 | 9.8% | ||
| Bridge chest | 1 | 11.2% | ||
| Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% | |
| Iron Axe | Cold Ocean ruins | Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 6.7% |
| Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 6.7% | ||
- ↑ a b All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, and Swift Sneak), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.
Usage[]
Chopping[]
An axe is used to break logs, blocks derived from wood and some other blocks faster than by using other tools. An axe uses 1 durability to break 1 block. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.
Durability[]
Each tier of axe has a different durability:
| Material | Durability |
|---|---|
| Wood | 59 |
| Stone | 131 |
| Iron | 250 |
| Diamond | 1561 |
| Golden | 32 |
| Netherite | 2031 |
Speed[]
The following table summarizes the speed at which axes of different qualities perform.
| Block | Breaking time[A] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite | Golden | |
| Wooden Trapdoors | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Wooden Doors | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Barrel | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Cartography Table | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Chest | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Trapped Chest | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Crafting Table | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Fletching Table | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Lectern | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Loom | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Smithing Table | 3.75 | 1.9 | 0.95 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.35 |
| Bamboo Mosaic | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Block of Bamboo | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Campfire | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Fences | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Fence Gates | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Jukebox | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Logs | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Planks | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Wooden Slabs | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Wooden Stairs | 3 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.35 | 0.25 |
| Bookshelf | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
| Chiseled Bookshelf | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
| Banners | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Jack o'Lantern | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Melon | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Pumpkin | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Sign | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Hanging Sign | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Note Block | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
| Mangrove Roots | 1.05 | 0.55 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
| Wooden Pressure Plate | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Beehive | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Ladder | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.05 |
| Bee Nest | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Composter | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Bamboo | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Bed | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Cocoa | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Daylight Detector | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Mushroom Block | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Vines | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Stripping[]
Using an axe on a log, wood block, block of bamboo\, or block of copper causes it to become a stripped log, stripped wood block, block of stripped bamboo, or removes one layer of oxidization or wax, respectively. This consumes one point of durability from the axe.
Weapon[]
An axe loses 2 points of durability when used as a weapon.
Bedrock Edition[]
In Bedrock Edition, axes always attack instantly and deal 1
less damage than a sword of the same quality but it lowers the durability of armor and shields faster than any other tool in-game.
| Material | Damage |
|---|---|
| Wooden | 4
|
| Golden | |
| Stone | 5
|
| Iron | 6
|
| Diamond | 7
|
| Netherite | 8
|
Java Edition[]
Attacking a shield user with an axe should have a chance to disable the use of the shield for 5 seconds, but currently this always disables a shield.[1] The base chance is 25%, plus 5 percentage points per level of Efficiency on the axe, plus 75 percentage points if attacking while sprinting. Vindicators, piglin brutes, or other mobs with commands always disable the player's shield. Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a sword of the same tier, though they take longer than a sword to recover, resulting in lower DPS (with the exception of golden axes). The damage dealt and cooldown time depends on the type:
| Material | Wooden | Gold | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack Damage | 7
|
7
|
9
|
9
|
9
|
10
|
| Attack Speed | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Recovery time | 1.25 seconds (25 game ticks) | 1 second (20 game ticks) | 1.25 seconds (25 game ticks) | 1.11 seconds (22.2 game ticks) | 1 second (20 game ticks) | 1 second (20 game ticks) |
| DPS | 5.6 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| Lifetime damage inflicted[note 1] | 210 × 105
|
112 × 56
|
594 × 297
|
1125 × 562.5
|
7029 × 3514.5
|
10160 × 5080
|
- ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is
ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit. The durability is halved then ceiled because axes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.
Enchantments[]
An axe can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Max Level | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Fortune[note 1] | III | |
| Silk Touch[note 1] | I | |
| Efficiency | V | |
| Unbreaking | III | |
| Sharpness[note 2] | V | |
| Smite[note 2] | V | |
| Bane of Arthropods[note 2] | V | |
| Fire Aspect[upcoming: JE Combat Tests][note 3] | II | |
| Looting[upcoming: JE Combat Tests][note 3] | III | |
| Knockback[upcoming: JE Combat Tests][note 3] | II | |
| Cleaving[upcoming: JE Combat Tests][note 2] | III | |
| Sweeping Edge[upcoming: JE Combat Tests][note 3] | III | |
| Mending | I | |
| Curse of Vanishing | I |
Fuel[]
Wooden axes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per axe.
Smelting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget |
Iron Axe or Golden Axe + Any fuel |
Piglins[]
Piglins are attracted to golden axes and run toward any golden axes on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axe strips | Blocks | When an axe strips a log or wood block | item | subtitles | 0.9 | 1.0/0.85 | 16 | |
| Wax off | Blocks | When an axe unwaxes a block of copper | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.9/1.1/1.0 | 16 | |
| Axe scrapes | Blocks | When an axe deoxidizes a block of copper | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0/0.9/1.1 | 16 | |
| Item breaks | Players | When an axe's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When an axe strips a log or wood block [sound 1] | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Blocks | When an axe strips a stem or hyphae block [sound 1] | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Players | When an axe strips a block of bamboo [sound 1] | step | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Players | When an axe strips a cherry log or cherry wood block [sound 1] | step | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Friendly Creatures | When an axe unwaxes or deoxidizes a block of copper [more information needed] | copper | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When an axe's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 |
- ↑ a b c d MCPE-106552
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Axe | wooden_axe | Item | item.minecraft.wooden_axe |
| Stone Axe | stone_axe | Item | item.minecraft.stone_axe |
| Iron Axe | iron_axe | Item | item.minecraft.iron_axe |
| Diamond Axe | diamond_axe | Item | item.minecraft.diamond_axe |
| Golden Axe | golden_axe | Item | item.minecraft.golden_axe |
| Netherite Axe | netherite_axe | Item | item.minecraft.netherite_axe |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Axe | wooden_axe | 311 | Item | item.wooden_axe.name |
| Stone Axe | stone_axe | 315 | Item | item.stone_axe.name |
| Iron Axe | iron_axe | 298 | Item | item.iron_axe.name |
| Diamond Axe | diamond_axe | 319 | Item | item.diamond_axe.name |
| Golden Axe | golden_axe | 325 | Item | item.golden_axe.name |
| Netherite Axe | netherite_axe | 607 | Item | item.netherite_axe.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool. | Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material. | 15G | Bronze | ||
| Oooh, shiny! | Distract a Piglin using gold | Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. | 30G | Silver | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold | Nether | While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:
| nether/distract_piglin
|
| Wax Off | Scrape Wax off of a Copper block! | Wax On | Use an axe to revert a waxed copper block. | husbandry/wax_off
|
History[]
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100110 |  Added iron axes.
| |||
| An axe is used to gather wood 400% faster than by hand. | |||||
| When starting in a new world, the player is given one of each tool. | |||||
| 20100122 |  The texture of axes has been changed. Half of the axe head has been removed. | ||||
| 20100124 |  The texture of axes has been changed again. The other axe head is now used instead.
| ||||
| A complete toolset is no longer given to the player on starting a new world. Instead, there are multiple chests in the later called "Indev House" containing a stack of most accessible blocks/items including tools. | |||||
| 20100128 |    Tools now have tiers. Wooden, stone, and diamond axes have been added.
| ||||
 The texture of iron axes has been changed. | |||||
| An axe held by the player is now rendered to appear more 3D. | |||||
| They cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house. | |||||
| 20100129 | Wooden, stone, iron, and diamond axes can now be crafted. | ||||
| 20100130 |  Axes can now be made out of gold. | ||||
| 20100201-1 | Tools now take damage when being used. Better tools now last longer. | ||||
| 20100206 |  The texture of golden axes has been changed. | ||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Gold tools, including axes, now remove blocks faster than diamond tools. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w16a | Wooden and stone axes are now found in the new bonus chests. | |||
| 12w18a | Wooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | ||||
| 12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–7 emeralds. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w21a | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1), axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all axes doing 1 more damage than before. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Weapon smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond axe for 9–12 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–8 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond axes are no longer sold. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w34a | Axes now use the attack speed combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for an axe is 1.2 seconds. | |||
| 15w34b | Axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter. | ||||
| 15w34c | Axes do 4 more damage than previously.
| ||||
| Axes now have an attack speed of 0.85. | |||||
| Axes can now temporarily disable shield use. | |||||
| 15w35a | The damage of axes has been reduced by 1.
| ||||
| The speed of axes has been increased to 0.9. | |||||
| 15w37a | Stone and diamond axes now both do 9 damage, instead of the previous 8 and 10 respectively.
| ||||
| Axes now have attack speed based on the tier, with wooden and stone having a speed of 0.8, iron having a speed of 0.9, and diamond and gold having a speed of 1. | |||||
| 15w43a | Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests. | ||||
| 15w44a | The average yield of stone and wooden axes from bonus chests has been decreased. | ||||
| 1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron axes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 271, 275, 258, 279 and 286. | |||
| 18w07a | Using an axe on a block of wood or log now turns it into a stripped block of wood or log. | ||||
| 18w09a | Stone axes now can generate in the chests of underwater ruins. | ||||
| pre2 | Using an axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |      The textures of all axes have been changed. | |||
| 19w11a | Toolsmith villagers now sell stone axes, as well as enchanted iron and diamond axes. | ||||
| 19w13a | Toolsmith villagers now give stone axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
| Weaponsmith villagers now give stone, golden and iron axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a |  Added netherite axes.
| |||
| Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| 20w09a |  The texture of diamond axes has been changed. | ||||
| 20w10a |  The texture of netherite axes has been changed.
| ||||
| Netherite axes can no longer be crafted. | |||||
| Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
| 20w15a | Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone. | ||||
| 20w16a | Golden axes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | ||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w30a | Enchanted golden axes can now be found in bastion remnant chests. | |||
| 1.17 | 21w08a | Stone axes can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate. | |||
| 21w11a | Axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks. | ||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a | Added block of bamboo, which when used with an axe gives a block of stripped bamboo. | |||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w04a | Upgrading diamond axes to netherite axes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Iron axes can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in cold and warm ocean ruins. | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| Combat Tests | 1.14.3 - Combat Test | The attack speed for all axes has been increased to 2. | |||
| All axes now deal 1 more damage than their sword counterparts. | |||||
| Combat Test 3 | The Chopping enchantment has been added for axes, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness. | ||||
| Axes now always disable shields for 1.6 seconds (32 game ticks), instead of having a 25% to disable them for 5 seconds (100 game ticks). | |||||
| Axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2. | |||||
| The Sweeping Edge enchantment can now be applied to axes. | |||||
| Combat Test 4 | Knockback, Looting, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to axes. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.2.0 | Added stone axes. | ||||
| v0.3.0 | Added wooden axes.
| ||||
| Survival players no longer start with an infinite durability stone axe in the inventory. | |||||
| v0.3.2 | Added iron, golden and diamond axes. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Removed stone axes from the creative inventory. | ||||
| v0.11.0 | build 11 | All axes are now available in the creative inventory. | |||
| build 12 | All axes have been removed from creative. | ||||
| build 13 | All axes have been re-added to creative mode. | ||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1), axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all axes doing 1 more damage than before. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Stone axes now can be found inside igloo basement chests. | |||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Weaponsmith villagers now sell iron axes for 6-8 emeralds as part of their first tier trades and enchanted diamond axes for 9-12 emeralds as part of their third tier trades. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Iron and golden axes are now smeltable. | |||
| Iron axes with the Efficiency I enchantment can now be found inside chests in woodland mansions. | |||||
| Added vindicators, who rarely drop iron axes. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Wooden and stone axes can now be found in bonus chests. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Using an axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log. | |||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Stone axes can now be found inside underwater ruins chests. | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The textures of all axes have been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop an iron axe. | |||
| Trading has been changed, weaponsmith villagers now sell iron axes for 3 emeralds and enchanted diamond axes for 12 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades. | |||||
| Stone axes, enchanted iron axes, and diamond axes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 |  Added netherite axes. | |||
| Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| The texture of diamond axes has been changed. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | Netherite axes can no longer be crafted. | ||||
| Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
| Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone. | |||||
| Golden axes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | |||||
| Netherite axes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnant chests. | |||||
| 1.16.20 | beta 1.16.20.50 | Added piglin brutes, who rarely drop golden axes. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Piglin brutes no longer spawn with enchanted axes. | |||
| beta 1.16.100.55 | Zombified piglins that are converted from piglin brutes now keep their golden axes. | ||||
| 1.16.220 | beta 1.16.220.52 | Axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks. | |||
| 1.18.30 | beta 1.18.30.26 | Axes can now temporarily disable shield use. This is not mentioned in the official changelog.[2] | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added axes (all five types). |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Iron and golden axes are now smeltable. |
| 1.90 | The textures of all axes have been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added axes. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Axe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Before Java Edition 1.13, in the language files, axes were referred to as Hatchets.[3]
- Weaponsmith villagers gifting stone, iron and golden axes is a reference to the story The Honest Woodcutter, where a woodcutter dropped his axe into a river, and is successively provided a silver and a golden axe by the river god.[citation needed]
Gallery[]
Stone axe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
Enchanted axes[]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ MC-197537
- ↑ "We missed a change in recent changelogs for the Bedrock beta that you may like - we have now made a parity fix that makes shields get disabled for 5 seconds when attacked by an Axe-wielding mob or player. We will make sure to list this properly in the next beta :)" – @kingbdogz on X, March 17, 2022
- ↑ 1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe
External Links[]
- Taking Inventory: Axe – Minecraft.net on February 6, 2020